It's devastating to go to the town where I grew up and see needles everywhere. We've pushed poverty and despair out to the suburbs and those people with no educate and no prospects turn to drugs to relieve the pain in a disastrous way.

Whenever I read something by Sedaris all I get is the impression he is a smug asshole who thinks he's smarter than everyone else. Liberal elitism through and through. He's just as ignorant and pig headed as the Trump supporters he mocks.

I love it when the supposed 'rational truth seekers' react with the same knee jerk nonsense as conservatives. The NYTimes article was not 'false equivalency' it was an explanatory peace about why many in the Republican party don't believe in climate change, it not a support piece for them or their position.

Turns out that this leading climate scientist turns out to be practically illiterate when it comes to his capacity for reading.

1970 is an interesting year to do this metric. Why? Because it was the 70s when the tax revolts started. Boomers were making bank and decided they didn't want to share the wealth. They climbed the ladder and started pulling it up behind them rather than keeping it there for their children to climb it.

There is no reason the economy should be this way other than the sheer greed of those who have already made it.

The reason they are wise is because anyone can project their own meaning onto them. They have a universality that makes them immediately accessible to smart and dumb alike. Meaning is not a universal constant to which there is a singular authority.

How the hell did the quantify what as bullshit and not? Plenty of worthwhile statements out of context become bullshit. Also interesting they did no comparison with marketing language.

What a load of bombast. Another media elite crying that Trump is the 'end of all good things'. The only difference between Trump and most of the public faces of the Republican party is Trump doesn't veil his words and double-talk to hide his extreme views. If anyone it's the news media who has played up Trump over and over and over and made him the only viable candidate. Just like they did with Clinton. That plus the this nonsense about how we are 'too democratic' and resent the elites. Please, what people resent is that they are jobless while the elites make all their money on rent-seeking, bribery, and pulling up the economic ladder behind themselves via regulatory capture, not to mention the collusion in government that effective prevents any true and useful reform from being passed.